ICT projects at UAIC Case study the FIINLP

ICT projects at UAIC Case study: the FII-NLP Group Dan Cristea Department of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi dcristea@info. uaic. ro

Research in “A. I. Cuza” UAIC – FII • The multidisciplinary research departments • The research departments at the faculty levels • The Research Office at the Rector – specialized in FP (and other types of) projects – what these gentlemen have presented today is already common knowledge in this office – LEAR (Legal Entity Appointed Representative) – an administrative structure well established, PIC, etc. – entitled to do coordination, international audit, financial issues covered – advertise internal and international calls, deadlines

The NLP Group at FII • FP 5: – Balkanet – one of the first projects in the University: a network of aligned lexical thesauri for Balkan languages UAIC – FII • FP 6: – LT 4 e. L: Language Technology for e. Learning • INTAS (coordinator): – Ro. LTech. Platform for Romanian Language Technology: Resources, Tools and Interfaces • FP 7 (running): – CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – ALEAR: Artificial Language Evolution in Autonomous Robots

Working in a group UAIC – FII • People • • permanent didactic staff permanent researchers in faculty departments Ph. D students, sometimes – master administrative staff • Each Ph. D student is assigned to one project • The project the student is assigned to is on the line of her thesis • open Ph. D positions immediately after the start of the project • accept/propose projects in which your team is expert

The Round-Robin supervision • Each student is visited at least once a week – but: leave them some degrees of freedom – do not exploit them UAIC – FII • They should have the feeling of belonging to the Group – enrol in competitions to play under the colours of the University – they go to main conferences and project meetings (NLP-FII: between 2 and 4 international participations each) – make them feel good together • Their work is appreciated • Give them formative responsibilities

Part of the NLP-FII group at a conference UAIC – FII

The permanent renew • Nothing is stable or for ever UAIC – FII – Try to avoid conflicts: • a good team could be easily destabilised by a bizarre personality – Replace the ones who leave • be happy if they ask you for recommendations; they will spread in the world good words about their school of origin – Get new people aboard by: • • courses & term projects final grade projects/papers master programmes in the domain summer schools

The EUROLAN series of summer schools in Natural Language Processing

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